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Distribution

Range Description

This species occurs mostly in subsaharan northern Africa, but there is an isolated subpopulation in west central Morocco. The main range is Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, western Uganda and northern Kenya. It is mainly a lowland species but can be found up to 1,500 m asl.